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68 unusual facts about Memphis


37th Ohio Infantry

After the fall of that stronghold it was moved across Tennessee from Memphis to Chattanooga, and took part in operations of the 15th Corps, subsequent to, and at the taking of Atlanta, Georgia.

Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway

Passenger service over the line continued until 1955, when the Sunnyland, operating between Pensacola and Kansas City, Missouri, via Amory, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, was discontinued.

Alexander Wilkin

The following May, the regiment marched to Memphis, Tennessee and raised an army tasked with eliminating the threat that Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry was posing to the area.

Amum

AMUM, abbreviation for the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Tennessee

Andre Lott

After junior high, Lott attended Melrose High School in Orange Mound, Tennessee.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

Baptist Memorial Healthcare operates a college Baptist College of Health Sciences centered on Health Professions nearby the site of the former Madison Campus.

Baron Aviation Services

November 16, 1991: A Cessna 208 Caravan leased from FedEx, departed on a cargo flight from Memphis en route to Destin when it plunged into Choctawhatchee Bay 2 miles NE of the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport while approaching for a landing.

March 5, 1998: Flight 8315, a Cessna 208 Caravan leased from FedEx departed on a cargo flight from Memphis en route to Bowling Green when radar and radio contact was lost.

Beale Street Blues

Much more recently it was included as a track on the Memphis Jazz Box in 2004 as tribute to Handy's impact on the legacy of Memphis and American music.

The title refers to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, the main entertainment district for the city's African American population in the early part of the twentieth century, and a place closely associated with the development of the blues.

Benjamin D. Nabers

He was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Memphis, Tennessee.

Bluff City

Memphis, Tennessee is often referred to as "The Bluff City" due to its location on a bluff on the Mississippi River

Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas and Missouri

Fort Smith was terminal where the secondary route that crossed Arkansas and across the Mississippi River to Memphis, Tennessee, met the main route that led northeast to Tipton with the final leg by train via the Pacific Railroad to St. Louis.

Catholic schools in the United States

The article also reported on "dozens of local efforts" to turn the tide, including by the Archdiocese of Chicago and Washington, D.C. and dioceses in Memphis and Wichita, Kansas, as well as in the New York City metro area.

Chuck Patterson

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Patterson began his acting career in 1972 and appeared in film, television and stage roles.

Coraopolis Bridge

John Baird had also been involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and the Cairo bridge in Memphis, and had been employed by the McCann Construction Company, the Keystone Bridge Company and American Bridge Company.

Crest of the Royal Family

His name is based on the ancient capital of the Egyptian Empire, Memphis.

Derrick Baskin

He is currently playing the role of "Gator" in Memphis and has also appears in the filmed version of the musical, Memphis: Direct from Broadway by Broadway Worldwide.

Dewey Phillips

He started his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ/560 in Memphis, and was the city's leading radio personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his "Red, Hot & Blue" show on radio and television.

Elwood Ullman

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Ullman chose a writing career, supplying humorous articles for magazines in the 1930s.

Endurance by Right

She was bought for $250 by William S. Barnes, who sent her to Memphis in early 1901 to be trained.

Fantastic Sams

Fantastic Sams was founded in 1974 by Sam Ross in Memphis, Tennessee.

Gregory II the Martyrophile

After a few months, Gregory II then made pilgrimage to Jerusalem and then went to Memphis, Egypt where he lived for a year.

GT.M

The first production use of GT.M was in 1986 at the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

Hamilton Eye Institute

The institute opened in 2004 in an 8-story building donated to the University of Tennessee by Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis.

Harry Coleman McGehee, Jr.

While a woman was a finalist for the position, which would have resulted in the first female Bishop, ultimately the election was won by R. Stewart Wood Jr., rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

Henry S. Jacobs Camp

In the early 1960s, Jacobs called upon Rudi Scheidt of Memphis, Tennessee for more help.

Jack L. Cooper

Jack Leroy Cooper (September 18, 1888 in Memphis, Tennessee - January 12, 1970) was the first African American radio disc jockey.

Jackson Pollard

Jackson Pollard (December 15, 1866/December 25, 1869? — October 25, 1995) was an American longevity claimant (128 years, 314 days) He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, as a farmer's son.

Jacksonville, Texas

Many shipping and trucking firms can serve area customers, or pass through town to several important points directly from Jacksonville, including, Beaumont, Houston, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Shreveport, and Memphis.

James Lawrence Cabell

When yellow fever broke out in Memphis, Tennessee he was appointed chairman of the National Sanitary Conference and devised a plan that checked the spread of the epidemic.

John Wesley Crockett

After moving to Memphis, Tennessee, Crockett died there the same year on November 24, 1852 at the age of 45 years, 137 days.

Lloyd McCollough

McCollough, born in Memphis, Tennessee, was the youngest child of John and Clemmie McCollough.

Lou Dillon

She was the first trotter to trot a mile in under 2:00, at Memphis in 1903.

Marion Keisker

Marion Keisker MacInnes (September 23, 1917 – December 29, 1989), born in Memphis, Tennessee, was a radio show host, station manager, U.S. Air Force officer, and assistant to Sam Phillips at Sun Records.

Mary Odilia Berger

In 1878 a third of the members of the congregation were sent by Mother Odilia to Canton, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee during a Yellow Fever outbreak.

Mary the Jewess

George Syncellus, a Byzantine chronicler of the 8th century, presented Mary as a teacher of Democritus, whom she had met in Memphis, Egypt, during the time of Pericles.

Matthew Zeiss

On July 15, 2010 Zeiss recorded his first single at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis.

His parents met in 1980 after his mother heard of his father's trip to Elvis Presley's home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Memphis-Arkansas Speedway

Other notable drivers who have gained experience racing here included: Chuck Stevenson, Tiny Lund, Bob Flock, and Ralph Moody.

Memphis-style barbecue

Many national supermarket chains including Walmart and Kroger now carry Corky's Dry Rub and Sauce in their stores.

Memphis, Egypt

Much of what was found would fall into the hands of major European collectors travelling the country on behalf of the great museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Turin.

Also were residential neighbourhoods, some of which were inhabited primarily by foreigners—first Hittites and Phoenicians, later Persians, and finally Greek.

Merve Terzioğlu

Merve Terzioğlu (24 February 1987 in Istanbul, Turkey-7 April 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.) was a Turkish female swimmer in the sports club Galatasaray the latest and before that (2002-2006) in Fenerbahçe, both teams in leading positions nationally in Turkey.

MV Mississippi

Used for inspecting and surveying along rivers, the boat continued in service until April 1961, when the USACE decommissioned it at Memphis, Tennessee.

National Supermarkets

At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.

Peter C. Doherty

Doherty currently spends three months of the year conducting research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center through the College of Medicine.

Phyllis Morse

She also served on the national board of the Midwest Tool Collectors Association, the Arkansas State board of the League of Women Voters, and was an exhibit consultant for the Memphis Pink Palace Museum and the Memphis Mud Island Museum.

Sällskapet

Jan Gradvall of Dagens Industri described it as what blues would have sounded like if it would have its roots in Ruhr instead of Memphis.

Sid Tepper

In 2002, he and Bennett were honored in Memphis for their part in Elvis Presley's stellar career.

Spot network substation

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee has eight primary transformers that are connected to the same secondary bus.

The Festival

The story is set at Christmas time: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind."

The Memphis Blues

Subtitled "Mr. Crump", "The Memphis Blues" is said to be based on a campaign song written by Handy for Edward Crump, a mayoral candidate in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Polite Society

This organization was formed primarily by Tom Givens of Memphis, Tennessee and Jim Higgenbotham of Kentucky, both of whom have military and law enforcement experience, and both actively train civilian, military, and police departments in various places around the United States.

Three-Day Novel Contest

To date, the contest has had one repeat winner: Bradley Harris, a writer from Memphis, Tennessee, won in 1998 with Ruby Ruby and again in 2012 with Thorazine Beach.

To Serve and Protect

In addition there are some episodes featuring trips to Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Memphis, Tennessee.

Trailblazer Trilogy I

The Trailblazer Trilogy I is the debut album of the Memphis, Tennessee native rapper DJB.

U.S. Route 19 in Virginia

U.S. Route 19 (US 19) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Memphis, Florida to Erie, Pennsylvania.

United States open container laws

The entertainment district along Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, is specially exempt from both Tennessee's statewide open container ban and Memphis's local open container ban, thereby permitting the open consumption of alcoholic beverages on the street.

Urban Search and Rescue Tennessee Task Force 1

Urban Search and Rescue Tennessee Task Force or TN-TF1 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Memphis, Tennessee.

WABG-TV

Until then, the only areas of the state to receive a sole ABC affiliate were the northwest (from Memphis' WHBQ-TV) and the Gulf Coast (from WVUE in New Orleans).

WDNM-LD

WDNM-LD is a low-power television station operated by Word of God Fellowship, Inc. licensed in the Memphis, Tennessee area broadcasting on local digital channel UHF 21.

William L. Frierson

In 1929, Frierson received an honorary law degree from Southwestern Law School in Memphis, Tennessee.

Winfield S. Cunningham

After retirement, Rear Admiral Cunningham lived in Memphis, Tennessee.

WSIL-TV

However, some parts of Southeastern Missouri could not receive channel 3's signal clearly, presumably because WSIL had to conform it to protect WREC-TV (now WREG-TV) in Memphis, Tennessee in the next market to the south.

WTVA

However, several NBC executives believed Tupelo was not a desirable place for a local station because of its rural location, even though most viewers in northern Mississippi could only get NBC via grade B coverage from WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee and WAPI-TV (now WVTM-TV) in Birmingham, Alabama).

WTWV

WTWV, UHF digital channel 23, is a religious independent television station located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Zack Bragg

Bragg, who wanted to further his lumber business, selected the name West Memphis because of nearby Memphis, Tennessee's prestige within the lumber community at the time.


1991 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The singles line up was headlined by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) No. 3, Australian Open runner-up, Philadelphia and Memphis winner Ivan Lendl, reigning Rome champion, ATP Comeback Player of the Year Thomas Muster, and Estoril titlist Emilio Sánchez.

1997 Kroger St. Jude International

The 1997 Kroger St. Jude International was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Racquet Club of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States and was part of the Championship Series of the 1997 ATP Tour.

2007 UCF Knights football team

With their Conference USA championship, UCF got an automatic berth at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2007.

A Big Hunk o' Love

It was the first session that did not include guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, who had both worked with Elvis since his first recordings for Sam Phillips at the Memphis Recording Service, which later became known as Sun Studios.

Albert Means

These allegations and other evidence provided by Tennessee Volunteers coach Phil Fulmer led the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the recruitment of high school football players in Memphis.

Battle of Collierville

The Memphis & Charleston Railroad remained open to Tuscumbia, Alabama, for Union troop movements.

Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

Union dead from the battle were buried in common graves on the battlefield, but were later reinterred in the Memphis National Cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee.

Cigarette Girl

US Premier: Malco Theatres' Studio on the Square, Sept. 10, 2009 in Memphis, TN.

Darrell C. Richardson

He served as Director of the National Fantasy Fan Federation and was involved in the Cincinnati Fantasy Group and the Memphis Science Fiction Association.

Dewey Phillips

After serving in the Army during World War II, including seeing combat in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, he moved to Memphis.

E. H. Crump

One of Crump's lieutenants in the black community was funeral director N. J. Ford, whose family (in the persons of sons Harold Sr. and John Ford, daughter Ophelia and grandson Harold, Jr.) is still influential in Memphis politics today.

Edmund Warren Perry, Jr.

He has worked for museums across the United States, including the Memphis Pink Palace Museum, WONDERS: the Memphis International Cultural Series, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

EMC AA

MP 7100 was built for service with the Delta Eagle passenger train, which ran between Memphis, Tennessee and Tallulah, Louisiana.

Fading Trails

It is a compilation of tracks from four different recording sessions, including recordings at Electrical Audio in Chicago, engineered by Steve Albini, Sound of Music Studio in Richmond, Virginia, produced by David Lowery, and Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, engineered by James Lott.

Final play of Super Bowl XXXIV

In the 2000 film Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character returns from being stranded on an island for four years to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

From Memphis to Mobile

From Memphis to Mobile is one of a pair of albums by freelance tenor saxophonist, songwriter, producer, and University of Central Florida jazz professor Jeff Rupert, featuring Kenny Drew, Jr. on the piano.

George Washington Gift

He was then sent aboard the CSS Arkansas, at Memphis, Tennessee and slightly wounded in action, July 15, 1862, during the ram’s passage through the Federal fleet, above Vicksburg.

Great Cities of the Ancient World

The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople.

Green on Red

A major-label deal with Phonogram/Mercury followed, with the EP No Free Lunch and the album The Killer Inside Me, produced by Jim Dickinson at Ardent Studios in Memphis.

Hortense Spillers

While at the University of Memphis, she was a disc jockey for the all-black radio station WDIA.

Jillian's

Many of the locations no longer exist: the location at Neonopolis in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada (which closed in 2008 after also being used as a concert venue) and the location at Peabody Place in Memphis, Tennessee, which shut down in 2009, and the Jillians of Youngstown, Ohio at the Southern Park Mall was closed down on January 30, 2011 but for reasons unknown.

KWEM

KWEM Radio, an internet radio station modeled on a defunct broadcast station in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States

L'Assomption, Quebec

In December 2010, the 1,300-worker Electrolux factory announced that it would close, relocating to Memphis, Tennessee.

Lausanne Collegiate School

Marc Gasol (2003), professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies, 2007 Los Angeles Lakers 2nd round draft choice.

LBMS

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, a football stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Levitt Shell

The Overton Park Shell was built in 1936 by the City of Memphis and the Works Progress Administration for $11,935, as part of the New Deal.

Logan Young

During the 2000 season, an assistant football coach at Trezevant High School in Memphis claimed that Young had paid Lynn Lang, the Trezevant head football coach, approximately $150,000 to encourage defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with Alabama.

Mikey Jukebox

Much of his songwriting was influenced by a “1950’s Memphis & Rock ‘N’ Roll” phase (Bill Haley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Sun Studios-era Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis) combined with a passion for Klaxons, CSS and a love for French House music and early Source Records.

Miss Sadie Thompson

Lloyd T. Binford, the 85-year-old head of the Memphis Board of Censors, said, "It's rotten, lewd, immoral, just a plain raw dirty picture;" described "The Heat Is On" as a "filthy dance scene;" and believed the film should be banned.

Mississippi River Trail

Once in Memphis, the route turns right onto Millington Road, right onto Carrolton Road, left onto Benjestown Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River.

New Madrid Seismic Zone

The quake damaged virtually all buildings in Charleston, creating sand volcanoes by the city, cracked a pier on the Cairo Rail Bridge and toppled chimneys in St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Gadsden, Alabama and Evansville, Indiana.

Paddy McAloon

Songs written by McAloon have also been recorded by Kylie Minogue ("If You Don't Love Me"), Cher ("The Gunman"), Wendy Matthews ("God Watch Over You" and "Ride"), Sondre Lerche ("Nightingales" - the song appeared in "From Langley Park to Memphis" and Lerche sang it with the Faces Down Quartet as a tribute to Prefab Sprout), Danny Seward ("Home (Where The Heart Is)"), Momus ("Green Isaac Pt. 2") and various songs for Jimmy Nail.

Rhodes Colleges

Rhodes College, a private, four-year liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Sam Cooper Boulevard

Interstate 40 (I-40) was proposed to be routed through the center of the City of Memphis and to continue west into Arkansas over the Hernando de Soto Bridge, which was opened in 1973 and carries the traffic on modern I-40 over the Mississippi River.

Sarah Palin email hack

The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident and on September 20, it was revealed that they were questioning David Kernell, a 20-year-old economics student at the University of Tennessee and the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell from Memphis.

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

The Sisters of Mercy song "Dominion/Mother Russia" features the line "stuck inside of Memphis in a mobile home", as a play on words on this song's title.

The Casinos

Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

Toddle House

Shortly thereafter, Stedman was approached by a successful Memphis businessman named James Frederick "Fred" Smith, who was looking for a new investment since The Greyhound Corporation had bought a controlling interest in the Smith Motor Coach Company he founded 1931, and was renamed as the Dixie Greyhound Lines.

WATN

WATN-TV, a television station (channel 25/PSIP 24) licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, United States

When Love Comes to Town

"When Love Comes to Town" is the 12th song on U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum, where it was recorded at the historic Sun Studio in Memphis TN as a duet between U2 and B.B. King.

WOLX-FM

(Moore and Elliott were previously teamed with longtime WOLX station personality Fletcher Keyes Fletch, who left the station in August 2010.) National voices include midday personality Ken Merson (voicetracked from Baltimore, MD), afternoon drive host Willie B (voicetracked from Entercom's Memphis cluster), and nationally-syndicated host Tom Kent at night.

World Chess Championship 1907

Emanuel Lasker had virtually retired after retaining the Chess World Championship in 1897, in part due to his doctoral studies in mathematics, but defended his title against Frank J. Marshall from January 26 to April 6, 1907, in the USA, games being played in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Memphis.